Dan wrote: > At 7:10 PM -0700 9/6/2009, Bill Spencer wrote: >> Well, I have no agenda regarding POP3 one way or the other, and no >> choice that I know of unless I switch email providers. > > Gmail good. Does POP3 and IMAP and web. > >> but I have this notion that there's a way to get Mail to load >> everything from a remote machine, something about telling it to go >> to the library of the other machine rather than using the local >> library. > > Ooooo. hum. Ok. > > There's nothing that I see in Mail.app that lets you set the location > of it's data. > > I know you can replace ~/Library/Mail/ with a symlink, and Mail will > follow that. (that's how one puts thy mails onto an encrypted disk > image). > > I donno if you can make that symlink point to something over afp. > Probably not; afp isn't that reliable anyway. > > I know that Dropbox will do it. You put a symlink to the mail > directory in each machine's Dropbox folder. Then Dropbox will keep > the two machines sync'd. The new vers of Dropbox will even do the > sync directly across your LAN instead of via Amazon's S3 storage > servers. >
What about setting one of the machines up as a server? -- Sincerely, Dennis B. Swaney "Windows is a command-line OS with a GUI shell while Mac System 10 is ... oh, never mind." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
